Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-xml-axis-dev-archive@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 46141 invoked by uid 500); 30 Nov 2001 22:49:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact axis-dev-help@xml.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Reply-To: axis-dev@xml.apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list axis-dev@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 46083 invoked from network); 30 Nov 2001 22:49:32 -0000 Subject: Re: Merging soap, axis, wasp, and wsdl communities. From: "Theodore W. Leung" To: axis-dev@xml.apache.org Cc: general@xml.apache.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.99.2 (Preview Release) Date: 30 Nov 2001 14:49:44 -0800 Message-Id: <1007160584.9273.85.camel@dev> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Sorry for the late reply but I was away. I'm totally fine with what you wrote below -- I just wanted to make sure that I understood. And I agree heartily about the MS WSDL On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 11:46, Sam Ruby wrote: > Theodore W. Leung wrote: > > > >> One thing I want to specifically call out here: just as xml.apache.org > >> subprojects are not artificially limited in scope to only support Apache > >> XML parsers or Apache XSLT processors, sub-sub-projects of whatever > >> common name we come up with will not be limited to only supporting this > >> soap stack. > > > > The way I read this is "we want to support multiple SOAP stacks". Is > > that what you mean? Otherwise, it would seem odd if we didn't support > > our own soap stack. > > Supporting the converged Apache SOAP stack would be required. My concern > was to address any concerns that the support would need to be limited to > that one stack and that one stack only. > > To illustrate with an extreme example, if somebody wanted to have a WSDL > based tool which supported both Apache's and Microsoft's SOAP > implementations, I see no reason that support for both stacks couldn't be > coexist in the same Apache cvs repository. > > A concrete example where this is done today in another Apache subproject. > One would think that Jakarta was all about Java, right? And the > Microsoft's .Net in general, and C# in specific were the antithesis of > this? Well, take a look at > http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-ant/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/dotnet/ > > . > > - Sam Ruby > > P.S. I know of nobody working on such a tool at the present time.